Aquamarine Natural Pearl Earrings

Aquamarine is the blue-green variety of beryl — the same mineral family as emerald, but colored by iron rather than chromium. Its name comes from the Latin for "seawater," and its color is exactly that: the pale, clear blue-green of a tropical lagoon, of a swimming pool in morning light, of the particular transparency that belongs to clean water and the gemstones that resemble it. These earrings feature aquamarine beads with freshwater pearl accents on sterling silver ear wires — the blue of the sea and the white of the foam, worn together at the ears.

The aquamarine beads are pale and translucent — their blue-green color is subtle, the kind of color that reveals itself gradually rather than announcing itself immediately. The freshwater pearls above each aquamarine bead are the soft, white counterpoint — their luminous curves a visual exhale between the blue-green beads' cool, watery presence. The sterling silver ear wires are hand-formed and polished, their bright gleam the metallic note that completes the oceanic composition.

• Natural aquamarine beads — pale blue-green, translucent
• Genuine freshwater pearl accents
• Sterling silver ear wires
• Aquamarine approximately 5-6mm
• Nickel-free and hypoallergenic

Aquamarine is the birthstone of March and has been associated, since antiquity, with the sea — sailors wore it as a talisman for safe passage, and its name still carries the echo of ocean water. To wear aquamarine is to carry a small piece of the sea's color with you, a fragment of the particular blue-green that belongs to clean water and the gemstones formed in the Earth's deepest, hottest places. Style these earrings with white, blue, and the colors of the sea. A piece for the woman who is drawn to water — who finds peace at the ocean, clarity at the lake, and a sense of home in the particular blue-green of aquamarine.